After eating a lot of big fish and meat, seafood and mountain treasures, do you want to try some light flavored food? Do you want to have a bowl of warm stomach smooth porridge? Drinking porridge has four good. 1, supplemental moisture cooked rice, the weight ratio of rice and water is generally 1:1.2 to 1.5, while cooking porridge, the ratio can reach 1:6 to 10. the water in the porridge almost up to 90%, in the dry winter and spring consumption is very suitable. 2, lower calorie Usually, a bowl of rice can be cooked into 4 bowls of porridge. 100 grams of rice is more than 100 kcal, while 100 grams of porridge is only 30 kcal. The same grain, cooked into porridge than cooked into rice volume is much larger, it is also easier to “water full”. So it is said that drinking porridge, especially mixed grain bean porridge, is more satiating and helps control calorie intake. 3, easy to digest, gastrointestinal relaxation thin porridge, the stomach no longer needs too much to grind it, digestion, can be sent directly to the small intestine for absorption. Even if it is a mixed grain beans, as long as it is cooked soft enough, it will not bring a great burden to the stomach and intestines. After eating too much greasy food during the New Year holidays, you can drink two meals of porridge to make your stomach and intestines relax. 4, so that eating coarse grains is no longer difficult Mixed grains, mixed beans, although good nutrition, but if cooked directly as rice, will be relatively hard, difficult to swallow. And after cooking porridge, soft and moist, the degree of deliciousness is greatly enhanced, from then on it is no longer difficult to eat coarse grains. What kind of porridge should people drink? Congee is not simply the same as white rice porridge. Although white rice porridge is easy to digest, but the nutritional value is low, but also can cause a rapid rise in blood sugar, is not the best choice, there are diabetic friends need to pay more attention. Mixed grain bean porridge But, millet, brown rice, oats, purple rice, red beans, black beans …… mixed grain and beans of so many kinds, which should be selected good? Weak and indigestion: 1, less put mixed beans, not more than 1/3 of the raw materials, especially soybeans, black beans, mung beans, digestion is more difficult, and easy to produce gas, it is best not to put; 2, if there is diarrhea, you can put more brown rice, rhubarb rice, millet, yam, lotus seeds, they are easy to digest, very little intestinal stimulation; 3, you can add a small amount of white glutinous rice to thicken, love to eat sweet ? Can put some red dates; 4, before cooking, it is best to soak more than 8 hours. Three high patients and weight loss: 1, put more mixed beans, at least half, such as red beans, green beans, kidney beans, peas, fava beans, chickpeas and so on, their blood sugar response is lower; 2, do not put glutinous rice, white rice, rhubarb rice, sticky millet, which is easy to make the blood sugar rise quickly ingredients; 3, you can add some oats, barley to increase the sticky feeling, these ingredients also help control blood lipids; 4, put less dates and raisins, etc. The sweet ingredients, and do not add sugar; 5, soaking time is shorter, do not cook too soft, there are some chewing, then the feeling of satiety will be stronger. For GERD patients who are prone to acid reflux and heartburn, drinking porridge may “add insult to injury”. Those who eat too much liquid food are less recommended, and should instead eat semi-liquid or solid food to avoid aggravating their condition. It’s too much trouble to cook the porridge, it’s hard to cook it, it takes a long time to cook and it’s easy to paste the bottom, in fact, a healthy porridge can be convenient and delicious. 1, with the help of tools electric pressure cooker: directly throw all kinds of ingredients into the pot, add 6 to 8 times the water, then cover, press the “eight porridge” or “porridge” button, and then wait for the program to end, eat! Electric rice cooker: use the “porridge” and “boil porridge” function, the cooking time will be slightly longer, because there is steam overflow and some flavor will be lost. Electric stewpot: slow cook for two to three hours on low heat, then just keep warm, but the loss of vitamin B1 will increase some. 2, soak in advance If these tools are not available, it is a little more difficult, the ingredients need to be soaked in advance, such as grains need to soak 2 to 4 hours, and beans need to soak 8 to 12 hours. To make it simple, just soak the ingredients in the refrigerator overnight. The reason for the refrigerator is to avoid bacterial overload. These nutrient-rich ingredients are also very popular with bacteria. Although the bacteria can be killed after boiling, do not worry about safety, but the ingredients will be discounted in terms of freshness and flavor. 3, ingredients to be fresh cooking porridge, the most important thing is good ingredients. Especially mixed grains, can bring the natural aroma of porridge. Various grains contain grain germ, it is easy to fat oxidation, unlike white rice and white flour so resistant. Even if you have only bought half a month, there may be a “stale taste” that is not fresh. When buying mixed grains and beans, do not be greedy for more. It is best to buy only half a pound to a pound at a time, put it in a sealed box, eat it up as soon as possible, and buy it again when you are done.